Churn.



E. ZOLLER.

GHURN. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16, 1914.

1,101,778, Patented June 30,1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGIAPH cO..wA8mmN. D. c.

ETHEL ZULLER, OF LANSING, MICHIGAN.

CHURN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 36*, 19114.

Application filed. January 16, 1914. Serial No. 812,481.

TO ZZ whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, E'rHEL ZoLLnR, a citi- Zen of the United States, and a resident of Lansing, in the county of Ingham and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Churns, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in churns, and comprises a means for rocking the churn endwise.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a simply constructed readily operated platform arranged to receive a churn, the construction being such that a rocking movement may be imparted to the churn in actuating two pedals.

A further object of my invention is to provide a platform with a base forming member, and securing said base forming member to a platform by means of suitable springs, which will permit the rocking of the base member, but will hold the base member against lateral displacement.

With these and Other objects in View, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claim it being further understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made Within the scope of the claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure 1, shows a side elevational view of a churn operating member, elnbOdying my invention. Fig. 2, is a central sectional view of the same. Fig. 3, is a transverse sectional view through the same. Fig. 4, shows a perspective view of the base forming member secured to the platform.

In my present invention I provide a churn operating mechanism, which can be actuated by the operators feet, so that the hands are free to be employed in other labors, if desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1, shows a platform 1, which is square and flat, and is provided with the length-wise running cleats 2. Near each corner the platform is provided with the standards 3, 3. Held upon this platform is a base forming member 4, having the side bat-tens 5, 5, and the end battens 6, 6, an escape opening 7 being formed within one of the battens as shown in Fig. 4. Secured to opposits edges of this base forming member are the rockers 8, 8, these rockers being se cured in parallel spaced relation. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, these rockers are of a length slightly longer than the length of the platform 1.

In order to yieldingly secure the base forming member 4, to the platform 1, I employ two similar coil. springs 9, 9, which have one end secured to the platform 1, and

the opposite end to the base forming mem-' her 4, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. As disclosed in Fig. 3, these springs 9, contact with the sides of the rockers 8, and serve as stops preventing the rockers moving sidewise off of the platform. Secured near one end of the platform 1, is a coil spring 10, which has its upper end secured to the end of the base forming member 4, as shown in Fig. 2.

Extending from the batten 6, at the end opposite the spring 10, are the two similar eyes 12, and secured to each eye 12, is a bar 18, which has its lower end pivotally connected to a pedal 14, each pedal in turn being pivotally secured to an eye 15. In imparting a rocking movement to the pedals 14, a rocking movement is imparted t the churn carrying base member 4, and while this member is permitted a rocking movement, the same can not work laterally off of the platform owing to the stop springs 9. The spring 10, returns the rocking member 4. Held upon this base forming member 4, is the churn 16, having the lid 17, which lid is provided with the handle 18. This churn upon the inside is provided with the grating or agitating frame 20, so that as the cream flows from end to end within the rocking churn, which is removably held upon the base forming member 4, the cream is properly churned.

The churn can be readily removed from the rocking member and a dish or clothes washing machine may be substituted.

My invention 'may be operated by a woman conveniently seated within a chair, who is permitted to use her hands in knitting or in some other occupation. The device is further simple and inexpensive in construction, and both durable and efiicient in operation.

Having thus described my said invention,

upon said platform, two coil springs each having one end secured to said base and the other end to sald platform, sald springs acting as stops limiting the. side-wise movement of said rockers, a, (1011 spring havlng one end secured centrally to one end of said base member and the other end to said platform, two ears, a pedal secured'to each ear, two eyes secured to the end of said base 15 member opposite said last mentioned spring,

and two rods connecting said rods to said eyes, aS and in the manner shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

' ETHEL ZOLLER. Witnesses:

JOHN S. DEOAMP, CARL H. MOELTER.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. 7 Washington, D. G. 

